Tag Archives: ptsd

fly me. or not.

2011/08/23 – 18:30

Looking at the anecdotes posted at tsastatus.net for SEA and SFO sent me diving for a Klonopin.

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home is where. no seriously. where is it.

2011/04/09 – 21:44

Like most urban dwellers in the US, I am from somewhere else. I have been from somewhere else for as long as I can remember. But what I mean to write about is going home.

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ensign

2011/03/26 – 21:32

In my dreams soldiers shadows steel-browed and tensile
summon aircraft screeching phallic and armed.

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on my own

2010/07/15 – 06:56

As it happens, I have decided to, if not systematically, then at least with some sense of deliberation, try to unpack the tangle of narrative and nervous tissue that constitutes my own origin myth. Some of this involves therapy; some of it involves finishing the goddamned autobiography already.

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Next

2010/04/13 – 00:11

I have been waiting for the other shoe to drop since I was old enough to understand how we in the Western world project ourselves out into the future in a teleological way—or at least as soon as I developed the idea of a near future with consequences attendant on whatever I was doing now…

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not my planet

2010/03/19 – 22:43

You ever have one of those mornings you wake up before sunrise and you already know the day is going to be too bright and too warm and one whole side of your body is aching..

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A short treatise on religious rhetoric

2008/11/09 – 01:26

Because I am nobody sitting here in a deserted corner of the intarwebs, my post on the subject is not in this list, but bloggers all over the place are still talking about the racism inherent in blaming California African Americans for passing Proposition 8 on Tuesday. Alas, a blog has posted a list of [...]

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I know I said to wake me when it was over, but..

2008/11/08 – 02:18

It is Friday for me although the clock says Saturday and Saturday is streaking across the Pacific Ocean towards the International Date Line where it will turn into Sunday streaking across the Pacific Ocean towards Asia and eventually back through here again and then it will be Sunday but right now it is Friday and [...]

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Not expecting to fly

2008/08/06 – 20:26

I almost cannot stand the sound of small aircraft flying overhead. I am reminded of this by the feeling I get when I hear a single prop engine plane passing over the city, something that does not happen often in San Francisco, I think because the airspace here is so crowded that most non-commercial low-altitude [...]

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